Triple

T13222523
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Lomax E314790 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Folk Songs of North America
The Folk Songs of North America is a landmark anthology compiled by folklorist Alan Lomax that documents and preserves a wide range of traditional songs from across the United States and Canada.
E1027932 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: The Folk Songs of North America | Statement: [Alan Lomax, notableWork, The Folk Songs of North America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Folk Songs of North America
Context triple: [Alan Lomax, notableWork, The Folk Songs of North America]
  • A. Folkways
    Folkways is a foundational sociological work by William Graham Sumner that analyzes the origins, functions, and social power of customs, norms, and moral codes in human societies.
  • B. Music for The Native Americans
    Music for The Native Americans is a 1994 album by Robbie Robertson that blends rock and traditional Indigenous music to explore and honor Native American history and culture.
  • C. Unsere volkstümlichen Lieder
    "Unsere volkstümlichen Lieder" is a 19th-century collection of traditional German folk songs compiled and edited by poet and folklorist August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.
  • D. The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)
    "The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)" is a 1918 ragtime-style song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin that playfully critiques sentimental folk songs while celebrating the lively rag genre.
  • E. The Sacred Harp
    The Sacred Harp is a historic shape-note tunebook first published in 1844, central to the American Sacred Harp singing tradition of a cappella, participatory hymn singing.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: The Folk Songs of North America
Triple: [Alan Lomax, notableWork, The Folk Songs of North America]
Generated description
The Folk Songs of North America is a landmark anthology compiled by folklorist Alan Lomax that documents and preserves a wide range of traditional songs from across the United States and Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Folk Songs of North America
Target entity description: The Folk Songs of North America is a landmark anthology compiled by folklorist Alan Lomax that documents and preserves a wide range of traditional songs from across the United States and Canada.
  • A. Folkways
    Folkways is a foundational sociological work by William Graham Sumner that analyzes the origins, functions, and social power of customs, norms, and moral codes in human societies.
  • B. Music for The Native Americans
    Music for The Native Americans is a 1994 album by Robbie Robertson that blends rock and traditional Indigenous music to explore and honor Native American history and culture.
  • C. Unsere volkstümlichen Lieder
    "Unsere volkstümlichen Lieder" is a 19th-century collection of traditional German folk songs compiled and edited by poet and folklorist August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.
  • D. The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)
    "The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)" is a 1918 ragtime-style song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin that playfully critiques sentimental folk songs while celebrating the lively rag genre.
  • E. The Sacred Harp
    The Sacred Harp is a historic shape-note tunebook first published in 1844, central to the American Sacred Harp singing tradition of a cappella, participatory hymn singing.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d806affc688190a25b6ccc588e9c72 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98cf74d708190a61d8ad938653b06 completed April 10, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6ff24be9881908b96f3e72325e55f completed May 3, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7001924d48190af7d430cb258409a completed May 3, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f700cfb43881909c903ec12b15065a completed May 3, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:19 p.m.